[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.435.2 # An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.435.2 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.435.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.435.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435.2) plants with red flowers and keen scent nud having thorns have been laid down in the \*Atharvans\* as fit for incantation in order to injure foes, etc.; D. become gratified with the scent of flowers, Y. and Rā. with their sight, N. with their touch, men with all three. Among incenses, all exudations (except that of the \*Boswellia serrata\*) are agrecable to the gods; that of \*Aquilaria Agallocha\* to Y., Rā., and N.; that of \*Boswellia serrata\*, etc., to Dai., etc. \[For avoiding\] \*Andhatamas\* (B. \*°am ta°\*; a certain hell, Nīl.), darkness, and the sun's southward course, one should give lights during the sun's northward course (Nīl. and the note of PCR., p. 477); D. are resplendent, Rā. dark; hence one should always give lights, etc.; thereby a man attains to the same world as the celestial lights (\*jyotiṣūm sālokyam\*). The merits of \*bali\*-offerings made to D., U., men, \*Bhūtas\*, and Rā. Y., Rā., Pn., D., P., etc., are supported by the food offered by the householder; the \*bali\* offered to Y. and Rā. should be rich in blood and meat, wines and spirits, etc.; \*balis\* with lotuses and \*utpalas\* are agreeable to N.; sesame seeds with sugar to the \*Bhūtas\*. He who eats without first serving \*brahmana\* and gods and guests and children, should be known as a Rā. Thus said \*Kāvya Bhārgava\* to \*Bali\*; then \*Manu\* \> \*Suvarṇa\* \> \*Nārada\* \> \*Bhīṣma\* (XIII, 98).—§ 755: \*Yudhiṣṭhira\* (referring to § 754) once more questioned \*Bhīṣma\* on this subject; - [Previous: c5.s1.435.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435.1) - [Next: c5.s1.435.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435.3) - [Up: c5.s1.435](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.435.2) · Pramāṇa